DIANE ADAMS: When the Bangs bank was robbed

DIANE ADAMS: When the Bangs bank was robbed

Next week marks 55 years since the Bangs bank was robbed, leading to the eventual conviction of a group of local country music performers who may have taken the outlaw country concept a little too far. Billy Nelson of Brownwood was kind enough to send me some details about this incident. It does sound a bit like a sad country song. Things went from bad to worse, in this case ending in a train wreck of disaster, but not without a thread of hope t…